Really loved chatting with @yallah_halim for this new interview up at Fence Magazine and Books. Especially appreciated the opportunity to discuss how my Kalmyk heritage manifests in my work re: digital nomadism and technospirituality. Click through to read the full article!

Just tried the first production version of something that we've been working on at Stripe for several years. You never really know how good something like this is going to be 'till you see the pieces come together, but this... this is going to be great.

I spent the pandemic replying to scams with poetry. Friends egged me on. And now there’s a book. Use “strikeback” at checkout on halimmadi.com for 💵 back!

life gets better when you make things, see you all in 2025 🌀

the act of relaxing the body moves the hand to proximity with the pocketed phone. like a microsleeping student's head hitting the table and rousing them, idleness itself cybernetically produces the phone's readiness to hand, transitioning from the physical to the digital body

Working with AI isn’t like using a tool—it’s like working with a strange weather system. You don’t direct it. You enter into a negotiation and try to listen for something unexpected.

I don’t use AI to speed things up. I use it to slow down my thinking. To disorient myself just enough that I end up somewhere I wouldn’t have gone alone.

We keep asking if AI can think. But the real question might be: are we still thinking, or just managing increasingly clever reflections?

AI is part of a long line of dethronings. We are no longer the center of the universe, no longer the pinnacle of evolution—and now, maybe, no longer the sole writers of language.